The Ah So Designs Blog

Ah, the shower, what a great morning ritual.  It wakes me up, helps me get my singing voice ready to bang out some great code, and is a great way to talk to people about WordPress hosting.  Google “WordPress Hosting” and you’ll see results that span all sorts of price ranges and technical mumbo jumbo.  Google “favorite shower songs” and you can find way too many results for One Direction’s “What Makes you Beautiful” Either way, you’ll get a good laugh and will end up confused. Good thing I used to work at Dell, have a few extra hours this...

When WordPress 3.5 was announced, one of the big changes was within how WordPress handles the media gallery which Ah So uses to display sliders within our sites. Although the new user interface is a lot easier to use, we did have to make a few changes in how we handled images within our slider. In the following video, we demonstrate how to: add images to the slider change the order of the images in the slider link the image slider to interior pages add a caption to the images add alt text and title tags to the images http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LSOI7NKgtEE We hope that...

Ah, the old landing page.  Every website has then, but not everyone does them well.  At Ah So, we believe these pages should all do several things: 1. Clear and Emphasized Call To Action: Should convert viewers into customers Set offer copy and the call to action from rest of the page to make it special The best call to actions are in plain English with no more than 7 - 12 words 2. Plenty of White Space Visitors don't read; they scan the text for relevancy to their goal(s). Clean design helps emphasize key message. 3. Visually Engage the User  Tell the story with impactful imagery rather than...

Using WordPress and a flexible framework like Genesis on a host like WPEngine can save you hours of both installation, planning, and troubleshooting.  We did an analysis of our WordPress design and development time sheets and discovered that before we were using the Genesis and WPEngine solution, on average we were spending a majority of our time (around 38 hours a week) on setting up WordPress (using the "5 minute install" method), developing the functionality requirements...

There are a few ingredients that are used to achieve what has come to be known as Responsive Web Design.  In this post, we will be addressing the idea of a flexible grid.  We have used this on creating our own templates on the Genesis platform, but it can apply to other non WordPress platforms as well. In the good old days, we used to only worry about pixels.  Also, in the good old days, almost everyone was only viewing websites on monitors and these monitors usually had a resolution of 800x600.  There were no iphone, ipads,...